Aaron Knoll
knolla _at_ cs.utah.edu

Publications

Note: I am now at the FuturesLab in Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) at Argonne National Laboratory.

2010

Aaron Knoll, Sebastian Thelen, Ingo Wald, Charles D. Hansen, Hans Hagen, and Michael E. Papka.
Full-Resolution Interactive CPU Volume Rendering with Coherent BVH Traversal
Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2011 (accepted for publication)
[video]
multipeak_4chan
Aaron Knoll, Natallia Kotava, Mathias Schott, Christoph Kessler, Christoph Garth, Elaine Cohen, Charles Hansen, and Hans Hagen.
Volume Rendering with Multidimensional Peak Finding. University of Utah Technical Report UUSCI-2010-004, 2010
Aaron Knoll, Rolf Westerteiger and Hans Hagen.
An Evaluation of Peak Finding for DVR Classification of Biological Data.
Proceedings of Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences (VMLS) 2009 (to appear)
Mario Hlawitschka, Younis Hijazi, Aaron Knoll, and Bernd Hamann
Towards a High-quality Visualization of Higher-order Reynold’s Glyphs for Diffusion Tensor Imaging.
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences (VMLS 09) (to appear)
Younis Hijazi, Aaron Knoll, Mathias Schott, Andrew Kensler, Charles Hansen, and Hans Hagen.
CSG Operations of Arbitrary Primitives with Interval Arithmetic and Real-Time Ray Casting.
"Advanced Topics in Visualization", proceedings of Dagstuhl Scientific Visualization Workshops, Schloss Dagstuhl 2010 (to appear)
2009
Aaron Knoll, Younis Hijazi, Rolf Westerteiger, Mathias Schott, Charles Hansen and Hans Hagen
Volume Ray Casting with Peak Finding and Differential Sampling
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
(Proc. Vis 09), 15(6), pp 1571-1588, 2009
[bibtex]
[video clips (zip)]
Aaron Knoll
Ray Tracing Implicit Surfaces for Interactive Visualization.
PhD Thesis, University of Utah, May 2009
(Defense November 2008)
Aaron Knoll, Younis Hijazi, Andrew Kensler, Mathias Schott, Charles Hansen and Hans Hagen
Fast Ray Tracing of Arbitrary Implicit Surfaces with Interval and Affine Arithmetic
Computer Graphics Forum, vol 28 #1, pages 26-40, 2009
[bibtex]
[video]

Original Utah tech report #UUSCI-2007-014
Fast and Robust Ray Tracing of General Implicits on the GPU
Aaron Knoll, Charles Hansen, and Ingo Wald
Coherent Multiresolution Isosurface Ray Tracing
The Visual Computer, vol 25, #6, pages 209-225, 2009
[bibtex]
[video]


2007
Aaron Knoll
A Survey of Implicit Surface Rendering Methods, and a
Proposal for a Common Sampling Framework

GI Lecture Notes in Informatics,
Proceedings of the 2nd IRTG Workshop, September 9-11 2007, Kaiserslautern, Germany (to appear)
Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, Aaron Knoll, and Charles D. Hansen
Interactive Isosurface Ray Tracing of Time-Varying Tetrahedral Volumes
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2007, vol 13, #6, pages 1727-1734, 2007
[bibtex]
Aaron Knoll, Younis Hijazi, Charles Hansen, Ingo Wald, and Hans Hagen
Interactive Ray Tracing of Arbitrary Implicits with SIMD Interval Arithmetic
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, Ulm, Germany, 2007 (pages 11-17)
[bibtex]
 
[divx movie]
2006
Aaron Knoll, Ingo Wald, Steven Parker, and Charles Hansen
Interactive Isosurface Ray Tracing of Large Octree Volumes
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, Salt Lake City, 2006
[RT06 slides pdf]
Aaron Knoll
A Short Survey of Octree Volume Rendering Techniques
GI Lecture Notes in Informatics,
(Proceedings of 1st IRTG Workshop, June 14-16 2006, Dagstuhl, Germany)
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Ray Tracing Animated Scenes with Coherent Grid Traversal
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), 2006
(Ingo Wald's webpage)


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